This is an important thread. Crystallizes something I perceived spending 25 years in the Boston/Cambridge area: there are a lot of people earning $35k/yr and barely making ends meet who THINK that they are in the elite overclass. "We" do this, "we" do that. NPR, books blah blah >https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/1457796393800663045 …
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2/ ...and yet these fools are nodding sagely along to the Paul Krugmann articles and the NPR programs ...and they are NOWHERE NEAR the levers of power, or the compensation, or anything. They think they're on the same team as the Harvard star prof with the $4M house + stocks >
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3/ ...because they both listen to the same radio show and both have the same bumper sticker on their cars, but there are orders of magnitude of difference in income, wealth, and power. You know how righties say "lefties always project" (and they're right) ?
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4/ well, one of the many things that lefties project is "ah, the red tribe peasants are suckers - they buy into the red tribe myths of X and Y and Z ...but that wealth and power is always out of their grasp. FALSE CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS !!!" oh, hmm, that's a thing?
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Replying to @CultWineGrinch @MorlockP
B/c it’s an affront to their self-conception
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